Ometochcuacuil (MH618v)

Ometochcuacuil (MH618v)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of simplex glyph-plus-notation for the personal name Ometochcuacuil ("Pulque Priest"?). The glyph consists of a rabbit's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. His eye is open, and his coat is textured a dark gray. Touching his nose is the notation for the number two, which consists of two short vertical lines that are connected by a horizontal line. The name "Ometoch" refers to the calendrical date Two-Rabbit. The cuacuil part, which seems to refer to a priest, is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Two-Rabbit is a day name in the 260-day divinatory calendar (tonalpohualli) with strong associations to pulque, the mildly alcoholic beverage. In fact there is a divine force or deity with the name Ometochtli. Various other Nahuatl terms start with ometoch-, including ometochcactli, the sandals of the deity of pulque; ometochchimalli, the shield associated with the deity; and, the ometochtecomatl, a jar that held pulque. See the Gran Diccionario Nahuatl for these additional terms.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o ometochguacuil

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Ometochcuacuil

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

year name

day name

personal name

numbers

Syntax:

cuil (tracking)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Beverages

Gender (male)

Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

linear or multiple straight lines

frontal view

profile view

spotted or mottled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

numbers, números, dos, conejos, pulque, alcohol, chamanes, sacerdotes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Ometochtli, deity associated with pulque, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ometochtli
ome, two, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ome
toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
cuacuil(li), a priest or minister, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuacuilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Dos Conejo-Ministro en Sacrificios Humanos

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 618v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=319st=image.

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: